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Jan 11, 2017
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Charlie Chaplin
movies
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A Woman was Charlie Chaplin 's ninth film for Essanay Films . It was made in Los Angeles at the Majestic Studio and released in 1915 . The film starts with Chaplin meeting Edna ( Edna Purviance ) and her parents in a park; the mother is played by Marta Golden and the father by Charles Insley. In this film, Chaplin dresses as a woman to fool Edna's father. It was the third and last time Chaplin played the role of a woman on film. He played a woman in two Keystone films: The Masquerader...
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Topics: Charlie Chaplin, A Woman, 1915, comedy, film
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Dec 13, 2016
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Dec 13, 2016
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Segundo De Chomón
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"Superstition Andalouse" is a short movie by the spanish director Segundo De Chomón produced by Pathé Frères in 1912
Topics: Segundo De Chomón, Pathé Frères, 1912, french cinema, silent movie
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Dec 13, 2016
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Dec 13, 2016
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Segundo De Chomón
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"Les Kiriki, Acrobates Japoneses" is a short movie realised by Segundo De Chomón in 1907 and produced by Pathé Frères
Topics: Segundo De Chomón, french cinema, silent movie, 1907
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Oct 31, 2016
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Oct 31, 2016
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Buster Keaton
movies
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The Frozen North is a 1922 American short comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton . The film is a parody of early western films, especially those of William S. Hart . The film was written by Keaton and Edward F. Cline (credited as Eddie Cline). The film runs for around 17 minutes. Sybil Seely and Bonnie Hill co-star in the film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frozen_North
Topics: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, cinema, silent, comedy
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Aug 20, 2016
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Aug 20, 2016
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Charlie Chaplin
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The Cure is a 1917 short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin . Chaplin plays a drunkard who checks into a health spa to dry out, but brings along a big suitcase full of alcohol. Along the way he aggravates a large man suffering from gout, evades him and encounters a beautiful young woman who encourages him to stop drinking. However, when the hotel owner learns his employees are getting drunk off Charlie's liquor, he calls an employee and orders him to have the liquor thrown out...
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, 1917, silent film, public domain
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Aug 20, 2016
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Aug 20, 2016
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Charlie Chaplin
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The Adventurer is an American short comedy film made in 1917 written and directed by Charlie Chaplin , and is the last of the twelve films made under contract for the Mutual Film Corporation . Chaplin plays an escaped convict on the run from prison guards. He falls into favor with a wealthy family after he saves a young lady ( Edna Purviance ) from drowning, but her suitor ( Eric Campbell ) does everything he can to have Chaplin apprehended by the officials. [1] The film also stars Henry...
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, 1917, silent film, public domain
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Aug 4, 2016
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Aug 4, 2016
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Leni Riefenstahl
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Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl , documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics , held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin , Germany . The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit (Festival of Beauty). It was the first documentary feature film of the Olympic Games ever made. Many advanced motion picture techniques, which later became industry standards...
Topics: Leni Riefenstahl, documentary, Olympic Games, 1936, German Cinema
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Aug 2, 2016
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Aug 2, 2016
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Leni Riefenstahl
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Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl , documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics , held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin , Germany . The film was released in two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit (Festival of Beauty). It was the first documentary feature film of the Olympic Games ever made. Many advanced motion picture techniques, which later became industry standards...
Topics: Leni Riefenstahl, documentary, German Cinema
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Jul 11, 2016
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Jul 11, 2016
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Roscoe Arbuckle
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The Cook is a 1918 American silent film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton . The movie is a slapstick comedy and focuses on goings-on at a high-end restaurant with Arbuckle as the Cook and Keaton as the Waiter.The film is notable for a scene spoofing the 1918 Theda Bara film Salomé , with Arbuckle dancing around with a length of sausage links and pots and pans. It also contains many of Arbuckle's favorite food gags and some well-received work by Keaton....
Topics: Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, 1918, slapstick, silent film
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Jul 10, 2016
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Jul 10, 2016
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Fritz Lang
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M ( German : M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder — "M - A city looks for a murderer") is a 1931 German drama - thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre . It was written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou and was the director's first sound film . Now considered a classic, the film was deemed by Fritz Lang as the finest work he'd ever done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(1931_film)
Topics: M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, M, Fritz Lang, German Cinema, 1931
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Jul 10, 2016
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Jul 10, 2016
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Walter Ruttmann
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Deutsche Panzer (1940) is a short documentary movie directed by Walter Ruttman and written by Heinz Hesemann.
Topics: Walter Ruttmann, Deutsche Panzer, propaganda, documentary, Heinz Hesemann, German Cinema
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Apr 10, 2016
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Apr 10, 2016
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Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
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he Cameraman is a 1928 American silent comedy directed by Edward Sedgwick and an uncredited Buster Keaton. [1] The picture stars Buster Keaton , Marceline Day , Harold Goodwin , and others. The Cameraman was Keaton's first film with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . It is considered by fans and critics to be Keaton still in top form, and it was added to the National Film Registry in 2005 as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Within...
Topics: Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, comedy
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Mar 24, 2016
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Mar 24, 2016
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A collection of Lumiére Brothers's film: 1. Le rémouleur et l'assiette au noir [889] 2. Départ de cyclistes [33] 3. Sauts périlleux par deux [1042] 4. Départ en gondole de LL. MM. [1059] 5. Défilé de la Garde nationale du District Columbia [344] 6. Cavalcade (Char du Soleil) [23] 7. Bains en mer [656] 8. Douche après le bain [657] 9. Partie de tric-trac [74] 10. Une partie de Lawn-Tennis II [567] 11. Baignade de nègres [12] 12. Place des Cordeliers [128] 13. Rome : Pont Ripetta [429]...
Topics: Lumière, French cinema, History of Film
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Mar 22, 2016
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Mar 22, 2016
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George Albert Smith
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The Kiss in the Tunnel is a 1899 film British short silent comedy film , produced and directed by George Albert Smith , showing a couple sharing a brief kiss as their train passes through a tunnel, which is said to mark the beginnings of narrative editing. The director, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "felt that some extra spice was called for," in the then-popular 'phantom ride' genre, which featured shots taken from the front of a moving train,...
Topics: George Albert Smith, British Cinema, 1899
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Mar 3, 2016
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Mar 3, 2016
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Alice Guy
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Les Résultats du féminisme is a 1906 French silent comedy film directed by Alice Guy . It was remade in 1912 as In the Year 2000 .
Topics: Alice Guy, cinema, film, comedy, 1906
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Jan 27, 2016
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Jan 27, 2016
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Charlie Chaplin
audio
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comment 0
Soundtrack for Charle Chaplin's movie The Adventurer
Topics: Chaplin, soundtrack, The Adventurer
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Jan 27, 2016
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Jan 27, 2016
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Charlie Chaplin
audio
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Soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's movie The Cure
Topics: Chaplin, silent cinema, The Cure, soundtrack
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614
Jan 27, 2016
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Jan 27, 2016
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Charlie Chaplin
audio
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favorite 0
comment 0
Soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's movie The Immigrant
Topics: Chaplin, soundtrack, The Immigrant
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510
Jan 27, 2016
01/16
Jan 27, 2016
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Chaplin, silent cinema, movie, The Immigrant
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The Immigrant (also called Broke ) is a 1917 American silent romantic comedy short . The film stars the Charlie Chaplin Tramp character as an immigrant coming to the United States who is accused of theft on the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean , and falls in love with a beautiful young woman along the way. It also stars Edna Purviance and Eric Campbell . The movie was written and directed by Chaplin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immigrant_(1917_film)
Topic: Chapl
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Jan 19, 2016
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Jan 19, 2016
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Jean Cocteau
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The Blood of a Poet ( French : Le Sang d'un Poète ) (1930) is an avant-garde film directed by Jean Cocteau and financed by Charles de Noailles . Photographer Lee Miller made her only film appearance in this movie, which features an appearance by the famed aerialist Barbette . It is the first part of the Orphic Trilogy , which is continued in Orphée (1950) and concludes with Testament of Orpheus (1960). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_of_a_Poet
Topics: Jean Cocteau, The Blood of a Poet, french, cinema, avant-garde
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Jan 16, 2016
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Jan 16, 2016
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Mack Sennett
movies
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A Busy Day is a 1914 short film starring Charlie Chaplin and Mack Swain . In A Busy Day , a wife (played by an energetic Charlie Chaplin ) becomes jealous of her husband's interest in another woman during a military parade. On her way to attack the couple, the wife interrupts the set of a film, knocking over a film director and a police officer. Finally, the husband pushes the wife off of a pier and she falls into the harbor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Busy_Day
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, Mack Swain, 1914, movie, cinema
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Nov 17, 2015
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Nov 17, 2015
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Auguste and Louis Lumière
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A collection of Lumière Brothers movies: 61. Danse Japonaise III. Gueichas en Jinrikicha [1023] 62. La petite fille et son chat [1100] 63. Le commandant Marchand au Cercle Militaire à Paris [1032] 64. Brooklyn : Fulton Street [330] 65. Sortie de la Quadrille [863] 66. Intérieur d'une vacherie [1103] 67. LYON : Débarquement d'une mouche [424] 68. Nice : Panorama sur la ligne de Baulieu à Monaco III [1232] 69. Budapest : Cortège de la Couronne [271] 70. Marche aux bœufs I. [624] 71. Pêche...
Topics: Lumière, French Cinema, History of Film
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Nov 11, 2015
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Nov 11, 2015
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Auguste & Louis Lumière
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A collection of Lumiére Brothers's film: 30. Scaphandrier [92] 31. Les forgerons [51] 32. Sauts au cheval en longueur [453] 33. La paralytique [755] 34. Exercices de lances [1349] 35. Une rue à Tokyo [738] 36. Chicago : Défilé de policemen [336] 37. Thiers, Mac-Mahon, Grévy, Carnot, Félix Faure [969] 38. Défense du drapeau [650] 39. Constantinople : Panorama des Rives du Bosphore [417] 40. Le roi de Cambodge se rendant au Palais [1290] 41. Chasse au renard : Le Départ [1081] 42....
Topics: Lumière, French Cinema, History of Film
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Nov 10, 2015
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Nov 10, 2015
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Auguste & Louis Lumière
movies
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A collection of Lumiére Brothers's film: 1. Bocal aux poissons rouges [18] 2. Géant et nain [114] 3. La poupée. acte II. : Le curé et les mannequins [1105] 4. Lancement du "Varèse" à Livourne [1086] 5. Après le lancement : sortie des invités et du public [1087] 6. Danse au bivouac [266] 7. Fumerie d'opium [1270] 8. Défilé de voitures de bébés à la pouponnière de Paris [1099] 9. Un enterrement [360] 10. MAILLANE : Défilé des tambourinaires [1224] 11. 99-Régiment...
Topics: Lumière, French Cinema, History of Film
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Nov 5, 2015
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Nov 5, 2015
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A collection of Lumiére Brothers's film: 63. Duel au pistolet (longueur : 12 mètres) [35] 64. Déjeuner du chat [41] 65. Scieurs de bois [93] 66. Japonaise faisant sa toilette [1027] 67. Voltige à cheval à Prague [1037] 68. IV. Guillaume Tell [1141] 69. III. Chaise en bascule [1140] 70. Toilette d'un Négrillon, II. [450] 71. Barrage du Nil [378] 72. MONT DORE : L'Établissement thermal [1191] 73. Cortège de gymnastique devant LL. MM. [1056] 74. Pont suspendu [273] 75. Danseuses...
Topics: Lumiére, French cinema, History of Film
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Nov 2, 2015
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Nov 2, 2015
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Luis Buñuel
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L'Age d'Or ( French : L'Âge d'Or , pronounced: [lɑʒ dɔʁ] ), commonly translated as The Golden Age or Age of Gold , is a 1930 French surrealist comedy directed by Luis Buñuel about the insanities of modern life, the hypocrisy of the sexual mores of bourgeois society and the value system of the Roman Catholic Church . The screenplay is by Salvador Dalí and Buñuel. L'Age d'Or was one of the first sound films made in France, along with Prix de...
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Topics: L'Age d'Or, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, 1930, French Cinema
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Sep 17, 2015
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Sep 17, 2015
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Auguste & Louis Lumière
movies
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A collection of Lumiére Brothers's film: 33. Jeu de la poêle [955] 34. Danse des Ciocciari [289] 35. 24e chasseurs alpins : Leçon de boxe [171] 36. Enfants annamites ramassant des sapèques devant la Pagode des Dames [1274] 37. Arrivée d'un train à Bathery Place [320] 38. Vue prise d'une baleinière en marche [1241] 39. Néron essayant des poisons sur des esclaves [747] 40. August-brücke [231] 41. Garde descendante du palais St-James [520] 42. Transport de malades II [642] 43. Premières...
Topics: Lumiére. French cinema, History of Film
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Sep 17, 2015
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Sep 17, 2015
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Auguste et Louis Lumiére
movies
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A collection of Lumiére Brothers's film. 1. Arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat (France) [653] 2. Danse serpentine [765] 3. Partie d'écarté [73] 4 Puits de pétrole à Bankou. Vue de près 1035 5 Acteurs Japonais: Exercice de la perruque 977 6 Monza: LL MM le Roi et la Reine d'Italie 279 7 Charcuterie mécanique 107 8 Courses d' anes: II La course 554 9 Fete au village 312 10 Port er Vésuve 282 11 Le gouter des bébés 654 12 Bataille de femmes (deus fammes seulement) 100 13 M. Loubet aux...
Topics: Lumiére, French cinema, History of Film
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Sep 14, 2015
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Sep 14, 2015
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George Albert Smith
movies
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Mary Jane's Mishap; or, Don't Fool with the Paraffin is a 1903 British short silent comedy film , directed by George Albert Smith , depicting Disaster follows when housemaid Mary Jane uses paraffin to light the kitchen stove. The trick film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "is an example of Smith's interest in cinematic effects - including, here, the use of superimposition to suggest ghosts," which, "is notable for its then sophisticated mix...
Topics: George Albert Smith, 1903, British Cinema
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105
Sep 13, 2015
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Sep 13, 2015
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Jean-Louis Martin
texts
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Traduzione in italiano dall'originale francese della pochade Madame di Fait Dodo di Jean-Louis Martin . Traduzione a cura di Piergiorgio Mariniello. Liberi usi non commerciali.
Topics: Jean-Louis Martin, teatro, pochade, 1914
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Sep 10, 2015
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Sep 10, 2015
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Ferdinand Zecca
movies
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English title: Slippery Jim Apparently inspired by the antics of Harry Houdini, Slippery Jim opens in the office of a police commissioner to whom a rather cocky villain is presented. The commissioner orders the prisoner to be clapped in irons, but this proves to be easier said than done because our anti-hero - presumably the Slippery Jim of the title - proves to be an expert escapologist.
Topics: Ferdinand Zecca, 1910, History of Film, French Cinema
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Sep 10, 2015
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Sep 10, 2015
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Ferdinand Zecca
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This movie is in the public domain. Music by Kevin MacLeod ( incompetech.com ) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Topics: Ferdinand Zecca, 1907. French Cinema, History of Film
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Sep 10, 2015
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Sep 10, 2015
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Ferdinand Zecca
movies
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English title: Alcohol and Its Victims This movie is in the public domain. Music is by Aufklarung https://www.jamendo.com/it/artist/347673/aufklarung Small Nostalgia - 1_ Barcarola The lost certainties of the past - Bachiana 1_ Tema from the album Riflessi published under Creative Commons License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Topics: Ferdinand Zecca, Aufklarung, 1902, History of Film, French Cinema
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Sep 2, 2015
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Sep 2, 2015
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Vsevolod Pudovkin
movies
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The End of St. Petersburg ( Russian : Конец Санкт-Петербурга , translit. Konets Sankt-Peterburga ) is a 1927 silent film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and produced by Mezhrabpom . Commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution , The End of St Petersburg was to be one of Pudovkin's most famous films and secured his place as one of the foremost Soviet montage film directors . The film forms part of Pudovkin's...
Topics: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Russian Cinema, 1927
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532
Aug 9, 2015
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Aug 9, 2015
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Charlie Chaplin
audio
eye 532
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Soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's movie Easy Street
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, Easy Street, soundtrack
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515
Aug 7, 2015
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Aug 7, 2015
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Étienne-Jules Marey
movies
eye 515
favorite 8
comment 0
A compilation of Marey's films
Topics: Étienne-Jules Marey, chronophotography
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Aug 7, 2015
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Aug 7, 2015
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Étienne-Jules Marey
movies
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favorite 7
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A compilation of Marey's films
Topics: Étienne-Jules Marey, Chronophotography
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Aug 7, 2015
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Aug 7, 2015
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Étienne-Jules Marey
movies
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favorite 10
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A compilation of Mareys films
Topics: Étienne-Jules Marey, Chronophotography
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Aug 7, 2015
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Aug 7, 2015
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Étienne-Jules Marey
movies
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favorite 6
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A Marey's movie collection
Topics: Marey, Chronophotography
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Aug 7, 2015
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Aug 7, 2015
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Charlie Chaplin
movies
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These media files, video and audio contents, are in the public domain in the United States . This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923. La strada della paura (Easy Street) is a 1917 short action-comedy film by Charlie Chaplin . In a slum called "Easy Street", the police are failing to maintain law and order and so the Little Tramp character (Chaplin), steps forward (rather to...
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, Easy Street, 1917
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Mar 29, 2015
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Mar 29, 2015
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Cecil B. DeMille
movies
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The Ten Commandments is a 1923 American silent epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille . Written by Jeanie MacPherson , the film is divided into two parts: a prologue recreating the biblical story of the Exodus and a modern story concerning two brothers and their respective views of the Ten Commandments . Lauded for its "immense and stupendous" scenes, use of two-strip Technicolor and parting of the Red Sea sequence, the expensive film proved to...
Topic: "Cecil B. DeMille" 1923 cinema movie
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Feb 27, 2015
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Feb 27, 2015
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Georges Méliès
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After the Ball (French: Après le bal ) is a short French silent film created and released in 1897 and directed by Georges Méliès . It starred Jeanne d'Alcy - Méliès' future wife, and Jane Brady. The film's plot is a one minute scene of a servant bathing a woman, along with the scenarios before and after as the servant is helping her get undressed while revealing a few layers of clothing, bathing her, and finally covering and drying her with a robe. This is the earliest film to...
Topic: "Georges Méliès" "Star Films" 1897 cinema movie
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Feb 27, 2015
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Feb 27, 2015
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Georges Méliès
movies
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After the Ball (French: Après le bal ) is a short French silent film created and released in 1897 and directed by Georges Méliès . It starred Jeanne d'Alcy - Méliès' future wife, and Jane Brady. The film's plot is a one minute scene of a servant bathing a woman, along with the scenarios before and after as the servant is helping her get undressed while revealing a few layers of clothing, bathing her, and finally covering and drying her with a robe. This is the earliest film to...
Topic: "Georges Méliès" 1897 cinema movie "Star Films"
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Feb 27, 2015
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Feb 27, 2015
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Georges Méliès
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The Four Troublesome Heads ( French : Un homme de têtes ) is an 1898 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès . It was released by Méliès's company Star Film and is numbered 167 in its catalogues. An illegal print of the film, copied without authorization from Méliès, was released in America in 1903 by Siegmund Lubin under the title Four Heads Are Better Than One . The film features the first known use of multiple exposure of objects on a black background on...
Topic: 1898 "Georges Méliès" "Star Film" cinema movie
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Jan 19, 2015
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Jan 19, 2015
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Georges Méliès
movies
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The Vanishing Lady ( French : Escamotage d'une dame au théâtre Robert Houdin , literally The Conjuring of a Woman at the Théâtre Robert Houdin ) is an 1896 French short black-and-white silent film directed by French magician Georges Méliès . It is number 70 on the Star Films catalog. Georges Méliès walks onto a stage and brings out his assistant Jeanne d'Alcy . He spreads a newspaper out on the floor and places a chair on top of it. He then has Jeanne sit in...
Topic: "Georges Méliès" french cinema movie 1896 iconauta
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Jan 1, 2015
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Jan 1, 2015
movies
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Cabiria is a 1914 Italian silent film , directed by Giovanni Pastrone (1883–1959) and shot in Turin . The film is set in ancient Sicily , Carthage , and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). It follows a melodramatic main plot about an abducted little girl, Cabiria, and features an eruption of Mt. Etna , heinous religious rituals in Carthage , the alpine trek of Hannibal , Archimedes ' defeat of the Roman fleet at the Siege of Syracuse...
Topic: Cabiria "Giovanni Pastrone" italian cinema movie 1914
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488
Jan 1, 2015
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Jan 1, 2015
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"Luigi Romano Borgnetto" "Giovanni Pastrone"
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La caduta di Troia , è un film muto italiano del 1911 diretto da Giovanni Pastrone e Luigi Romano Borgnetto . Prodotto dalla Itala Film di Torino , fu il primo film di successo di Pastrone. Dal punto di vista tecnico era ancora composto da inquadrature fisse, non era presente ancora l'innovazione del carrello , sperimentata solo a partire da Cabiria del 1914 . http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_caduta_di_Troia
Topic: "Luigi Romano Borgnetto" "Giovanni Pastrone" 1911 italian cinema movie iconauta
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Dec 30, 2014
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Dec 30, 2014
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"Francesca Bertini" "Gustavo Serena"
movies
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Assunta Spina is a 1915 Italian silent film . Outside Italy , it is sometimes known as Sangue Napolitano ("Neapolitan Blood"). The original novel from which the story was taken was written by Salvatore di Giacomo , and had been adapted to a successful theatre drama in 1909. Before Francesca Bertini became a famous actress, she would perform in this drama as a walk-on in the laundry scenes. Five years later, when she had started her career as a film actress, she and...
Topic: "Francesca Bertini" "Gustavo Serena" italian cinema 1915
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Dec 29, 2014
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Dec 29, 2014
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Jean Renoir
movies
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Nana ( 1926 ) is Jean Renoir 's second full-length silent film and is based on the novel by Émile Zola . Jean Renoir’s film is a fairly faithful adaptation of Émile Zola’s classic novel. The film’s extravagances include two magnificent set pieces – a horse race and an open air ball. The film never made a profit, and the commercial failure of the film robbed Renoir of the opportunity to make such an ambitious film again for several years....
Topic: "Jean Renoir" Nana 1926 french cinema movie
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The Fall of the House of Usher ( French : La Chute de la maison Usher ) is a 1928 French horror film directed by Jean Epstein , one of multiple films based on the Gothic short story The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe . Future director Luis Buñuel co-wrote the screenplay with Epstein, his second film credit, having previously worked as assistant director on Epstein's film Mauprat from 1926. American critic Roger Ebert included the film on his list of...
Topic: "Jean Epstein" 1928 "The Fall of the House of Usher" french cinema movie
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Jean Epstein
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Cœur fidèle is a 1923 French drama film directed by Jean Epstein . It has the alternative English title Faithful Heart . The film tells a melodramatic story of thwarted romance, set against a background of the Marseille docks, and experiments with many techniques of camerawork and editing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C5%93ur_fid%C3%A8le
Topic: "Jean Epstein" "Faithful Heart" french cinema 1923
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Rapsodia Satanica (1915) was the last film directed by Nino Oxilia and is undoubtedly one of the finest achievements of the early Italian cinema. In it, Oxilia spins a variation on the Faust myth, embodied here by the diva Lyda Borelli. Typical of extravagant D'Annunzian aestheticism at its height, Rapsodia Satanica was one of the summits of what was later called the "tail coat film." Diametrically opposed to the "cinema of reality" practiced by Serena, Martoglio and others,...
Topic: "Nino Oxilia" "Lyda Borelli" italian cinema movie
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1860 is a 1934 Italian historical film directed by Alessandro Blasetti and starring Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia and Gianfranco Giachetti. The filmpresages Italian neorealism in that it was shot wholly on location. Also, most contemporaneous historical epics used a star to focus on grand historical characters.This film focuses on a character whom nobody knows or will ever know; a patriot riding to get the assistance of Giuseppe Garibaldi. This film (in its heralding of neorealism) illustrates...
Topics: Alessandro Blasetti, 1860, Italian Cinema, Italian Unification, Risorgimento, Giuseppe Garibaldi
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La corona di ferro (American title: The Iron Crown ) is a 1941 Italian award-winning fantasy film written and directed by Alessandro Blasetti . The film won a Coppa Mussolini award, which is the ancestor to the Golden Lion. Sedemondo ( Gino Cervi ) succeeds his brother Licinio ( Massimo Girotti ) upon his death as king of Kindaor, and a messenger bearing a crown made from a nail from the true cross requests permission to cross the kingdom. The crown by legend will stay wherever injustice...
Topics: Alessandro Blasetti, Italian cinema, Fascism, La corona di ferro, The Iron Crown
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Jean Vigo
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L'Atalante (also released as Le Chaland qui passe ) is a 1934 French film written and directed by Jean Vigo and starring Michel Simon, Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté. In the film Dasté plays a captain who honeymoons with his new wife, Parlo, on a canal barge with the ship's first mate Père Jules (Michel Simon) and the cabin boy (Louis Lefebvre). The newlyweds struggle until Parlo leaves the boat to explore the sights of Paris, leading Dasté to abandon her until she is found by Père Jules and...
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Un Chien andalou ( English : An Andalusian Dog ) is a 1928 silent surrealist short film directed by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and produced with Salvador Dalí . It was Buñuel's first film and was initially released in 1929 with a limited showing at Studio des Ursulines in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months. It's one of the most influent movie in the history of cinema.
Topics: Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, 1928, surrealism, cinema
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The Nibelungs' Saga (german. Die Nibelungen) is a series of two silent fantasy films created by Austrian director Fritz Lang in 1924: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge . The screenplays for both films were co-written by Lang's then-wife Thea von Harbou, based upon the epic poem Nibelungenlied written around 1200 AD. Siegfried was released in the U.S. on 23 August 1925, premiering at the Century Theatre in New York City in the short-lived Phonofilm sound-on-film...
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Breve Storia del Cinema - Lo sviluppo del cinema in Italia e il genere epico-storico: http://www.brevestoriadelcinema.org/6-1.html Quo Vadis? is a 1912 film directed by Enrico Guazzoni , based on the 1896 novel of the same name. It was the first blockbuster in the history of cinema, with 5,000 extras, lavish sets, and a running time of two hours, setting the standard for "superspectacles" for decades to come. A worldwide success, it was the first film to be projected in a first-class...
Topics: Quo Vadis?, 1913, Enrico Guazzoni, italian Cinema
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A Sixth Part of the World (Russian: Шестая часть мира , Shestaya Chast Mira), sometimes referred to as The Sixth Part of the World , is a 1926 silent film directed by Dziga Vertov and produced by Kultkino (part of Sovkino). Through the travelogue format, it depicted the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and detailed the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on cultural and economic diversity, the film is in fact a call for unification in order to...
Topics: Dziga Vertov, A Sixth Part of the World, Soviet Cinema, History of Film
